Art of finishing imperfectly-woven cloth



Kimmie STATES ATENT FFECEQ NELSON TRACY MASH, OF GHIGOPEE FALLS, MASSACHUSETTS.

ART OF FINISHING IMPERIECTLY-'WOVEN CLOTH,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 350,008, dated September 28, 1886.

Application filed June 28, 1886.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, Nursery TRACY MAsH, of Uhicopee Falls, in the county of Hampden, of the Commonwealth of lilassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the art of Finishing Iinpe1-fectly-\Voven Cloth; and I do hereby declare the same to be described as follows.

Cloth, especially that termed cotton-flannel, that is to be napped and sheared in the process of completing it, is very liable to come from the loom with more or less imperfections, due to bad weaving, which, if the cloth is with out further treatment, will, while it is being subjected to the action of the napping-machine, cause holes to be torn in it.

To prevent such formation of holes is the object of my invention, in the carrying out of which I apply to theimperfeet portions of the woven cloth a layerof paraiii'nc-wax. in a cold state, by rubbing or spreading thewaX on the imperfections so as to cover them therewith, which having done I comb it in or upon the cloth by means of a steel comb, such as weavers use.

Serial No, 206.50l. (No model.)

In applying the wax to the cloth I prefer to make use of a stick of the wax, or a pencil of which the wax fills the bore as does the plumbago or graphite of a common lead-pencil, as with such the imperfections, which are usually long and narrow, can be Waxed to advantage. Next I submit the cloth to the action of the napping-machine to raise a nap on it, and subsequently finish it by shearing it by means usually employed after the raising of the nap on it by such napping-machine.

I claim 7 The improvement, substantially as de scribed, in treating cloth woven with imperfections, such consisting in covering the imperfect parts with parat'fine-wax and combing it in by means of a weavers comb, and next raising the nap by a napping-machine preparatory to shearing the nap and finishing it in the ordinary way.

NELSON TRACY MASH.

\Vitnesses:

FRANCIS A. STERRY, SIDNEY SANDERS. 

